InfoSec - Senior Manager, Threat Detection

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What is The Role:

As the Sr. Manager, Threat Detection at Elastic you are helping Elastic deliver safe and secure products and services to our customers, users, and fellow Elasticians. You’ll partner with teams company-wide to learn about Elastic’s threat landscape and adapt our monitoring as a result. You will be responsible for assessing and improving Elastic's threat defense coverage and processes for the entire organization, developing and tuning detections across a wide variety of sources that include multiple cloud providers, CI/CD environments, SaaS services, user workstations, and more. You’ll also help support incident response activities by providing expertise in log analysis during security events. You’ll have access to all the tools in the Elastic Stack and to the folks who build the Elastic Stack to provide feedback and suggestions to make the Elastic Stack better for everyone. If doing all of this with the Elastic Stack excites you, then we’d love to meet you!

What You Will Be Doing:

• Review existing detection lifecycle and develop plans for continuous improvement
• Partner with the Distributed Security Response Team (DSRT) to review and enhance alerting and alert strategy on a regular basis
• Enhance dynamic / risk-based detection strategy, identifying opportunities for and creating UEBA and machine learning based detections
• Identify areas for workflow automation, context enrichment, and other enhancements to the alerting workflow leveraging our SOAR platform or Elastic Stack native capabilities
• Partner with the product team on new features, bug fixes, and detection ideas to transfer ideas into features
• Evolve and grow our existing threat detection practice by working with our threat detection engineering team and our partners developing threat detection resources for our customers and community
• Share with our community how we leverage the Elastic Stack to keep Elastic safe through blog posts, webinars, meetups, and other opportunities
• Mentor and coach team members to help them unlock the best version of themselves

What You Will Bring:

• At least 8 years of experience designing, implementing, and performing monitoring and detection in a complex, global environment
• Demonstrated ability to think innovatively about solving critical security problems
• Curiosity for research and uncovering the unknown about cyber behavior
• Experience leading a team of detection engineers or related professionals
• Experience with machine learning is a plus

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary.  This role does not have a variable compensation component.  

The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below.  In select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the New York City Metro Area), an alternate range may apply as specified below. 

These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting.  We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future.  

An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

Elastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders. Therefore, in addition to cash compensation, this role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program.  Our total rewards package also includes a company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with a range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well-being.

The typical starting salary range for this role is:$159,800—$252,800 USDThe typical starting salary range for this role in the select locations listed above is